Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-06-17
THE NATION.

of Pennsylvania, is dead.
Iowa c. A. r., posts will not attend the
encampment at ST. Louis.
Hon. VIM. Murray, judge of the New
York supreme court, is dead.
Iowa republicans will meet in state con
vention in Des Moines August "A.
Pre- ,ident C.eveia and and party returned
from the Adirondack on the llth inst.
Canadian Blood Indians and American
Gros Nentres are at war on the Manitoba
line.
Capt Henry T.. Brooks OF Green Bay,
Wis, the oldest captain on the lakes, is
dead.
a protest has been filed against the SIP,
95O fee allowed each of the Wabash re-
ceivers.
Liquor men Of Texas have raised a large
fund with which TO fight prohibition in
that state.
The copper reduction works at Santa
Rosalia, Cal, were burned the other day,
Loss $4,000.
The ale and porter mems association
has been expelled from the New York
central union.
1t is rumored that fiibustering expedi-
ton against Honduras or Cuba is fitting
out in Savannah
Commander Pickering OF the navy has
been ordered to command the steamer
Michigan at Erie.
J. H. Fields farmer living near Helena,
Ky, shot his wife and two sons and then
cut his own throat
W. W. Corcoran, the aged philanthro-
pist of Washington, was stricken with
paralysis the other morning.
William f. Chandler has been nominated
United States senator from New Hamp-
shire TO succeed Senator Pike.
train was deraie ed near Frankfort,
Mo, the other day and a number OF
passengers were seriously injured.
The Eavemeyer sugar refinery in New
York was burned on the 18th inst Loss
S2,Oo0,OoO, wei covered by insurance.
\ brother Of ex-Mayor Grace of New
York was killed 10y Apache In lians al
Tompova Gulch Arizona, on the 10th inst.
An experiment of stocking Salt Lake,
Utah. with fish. is about TO he tried. and
1lo0O.0 young had have been sent there.
Negotiations are in progress for the
building Of a railroad from Fort Wayne
nd, to -. Louis, to para lei the Wabash.
Co'oncl Dan Rice, the veteran Snowman,
took a bride az ShulenberS Texas, in the
person of Mrs, VI {. Robinson. a wealthy
widow.
The Hon John Ewing died IN Washing
ton, Pa. on the 10Th Inst, aged 80 years.
Mir. Ewing was an uncle Of the Hon James
q. B.ain,
The mammoth Touring mills in fostoria,
Ohio were destroyed by fire the other
day The fire was caused by friction o.
the machinery
Among the 1900 emigrants landed at
Castle Garden on the l4th inst, were IL
penniless Greeks from Syria. They have
been returned.
The constitutional prohibitory amend
ment was defeated in the Massachusetts
no use hy vote of lbs to "a, not the neces-
sary two-thirds.
The redemption of trade dollars now
mounts to something over 100000.
Treasury officials think that very few
more are outstanding
General Master Workman rowderly. in
a speech in Boston the other night, an
nounced that under no consideration will
he accept "A reelection.
The boiler Of locomotive in the depot
yards at Chester, Pa, exploded the other
cay instantly killing on man and seriously
injuring several others.
Rigid quarantine has been established
at Tampa, Fla, and along the coast. Pas
sengers are detained for 10 days, and bag
gage and mail fumigated.
At Mansel. T. miles north OF Grand
orks ID. T., Mrs. Bokken, a Norwegian
and her two children, lost their live 10y
the burning Of their home.
Mrs Mary O. White. wife of ex-Presi.
dent Andrew White of Cornell university,
fell dead just as she wasleaving the break.
fast table the other morning
The president has determined 10 estab-
lish by means of the vessels of the revenue
marine national quarantine patrol Of
the coast of the United States.
Collector Salton>tall Of Boston imposed
a fine Of 81, 900 upon the Cunard steamship
company for permitting an insane woman
20 land from one of their vessels.
The Chicago, Milwaukee q 81. Paul rail
road has issued 100000 in new stock
part of which is TO pay for the Chicago
+ Evanston 4 Lake Superior road 9
/ The explosion OF tank Of gasoline in
/ Chattanooga, Tenn, on the 18th inst, re
suited in the death Of three men, ana ser
ious injury 20 n number OF others.
All differences between the Pittsburg
/ stove manufacturers and molders have
been amicably settled and work has been
resumed in all the foundries in that sec
/ ton.
Hon. Chauncy Fielan, for years the old
est living ex-governor OF Connecticut
died the other day Of apoplexy, at hi
residence in Hampton. lie was born in
1892
Crop prospects in Minnesota and Dako
Ia are better than for several years past
/ and Texas reports the most magnificent
+ crop prospects since the famous big crop
\ year of Is ,
As mark of respect to the memory of
the late VIM. a. Wheeler, ex-vice presi-
dent, the flags upon all public buildings in
! Washington were at half mast the day OF
\ the funeral